Survey about potential effects of the Brazilian Innovation Law in the UTFPR conclusion graduation´s projects

Recent innovation models, such as Open Innovation, shows a scenario that interactions between universities and companies can be important channels for stimulating innovation. Thus, the university patenting rights are regulated in many countries inspired by Bayh-Dole, to legitimize the interactions between the actors. However, according to studies carried out by the universities the ownership of intellectual property has brought both positive and negative consequences for the interaction between universities and companies in some countries like the USA and Denmark, for example. In this scenario, this paper proposes a methodology to assess obstacles to realize process of technological innovation of the UTFPR conclusion graduation´s projects by the perspective of Brazilian Innovation Law. A survey was administered for students in the undergraduate course in electronic engineering/telecommunications. The results stand out a little interaction between the project of undergraduate students at the UTFPR with companies and industries and the fact that the main difficulty for the innovation of these projects are in the technology transfer process. Thus, we conclude that the Brazilian Innovation Law (Law number 10,973/2004) can be an important tool for structuring a body to stimulate innovation from universities projects.